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Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI

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Quanta Magazine reports that OpenAI's internal AI model found a counterexample to the unit distance problem, a mathematical conjecture posed by Paul Erdős in nineteen forty-six. Erdős, a prolific Hungarian mathematician, posed thousands of conjectures throughout his career, and this particular problem was notable for its simplicity to explain.

Source: https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-legendary-erdos-pr...

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